John M. Najemy
Bibliografia degli scritti (1978-2011)
• Sono indicati i testi scaricabili da Reti Medievali, e segnalati anche altri testi eventualmente presenti nel web. Libri:
• Corporatism and Consensus in Florentine Electoral Politics, 1280-1400 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North
Carolina Press, 1982)
• Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515 (Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993)
• (Editor and contributor) Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, 1300-1550 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
• A History of Florence, 1200-1575 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006; paperback ed. 2008)
• (Editor and contributor) The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Libri in corso di preparazione:
• Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography
• Florence’s Guild Republic
Articoli e saggi:
• “Arti and Ordini in Machiavelli’s Istorie fiorentine,” in Essays Presented to Myron P. Gilmore, 2 vols., eds. S. Bertelli and G. Ramakus, (Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1978), vol. 1, pp. 161-91
• “Guild Republicanism in Trecento Florence: The Successes and Ultimate Failure of Corporate Politics,” American
Historical Review 84 (1979): 53-71 (anthologized in an abridged version in Major Problems in the History of the Italian Renaissance, eds. B. G. Kohl and A. Andrews Smith [Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Company, 1995],
pp. 120-30)
• “Audiant Omnes Artes: Corporate Origins of the Ciompi Revolution,” in Il Tumulto dei Ciompi: un momento di
storia fiorentina ed europea (Florence: Olschki, 1981), pp. 59-93
• “Machiavelli and the Medici: The Lessons of Florentine History,” Renaissance Quarterly 35 (1982): 551-76
• “Linguaggi storiografici sulla Firenze rinascimentale,” Rivista storica italiana 97 (1985): 102-59
• “Replica,” Rivista storica italiana 98 (1986): 922-25
• “The Controversy Surrounding Machiavelli's Service to the Republic,” in Machiavelli and Republicanism, eds. G. Bock, Q. Skinner, and M. Viroli (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 101-117
• “The Dialogue of Power in Florentine Politics,” in City-States in Classical Antiquity and Medieval Italy, eds. A. Molho, K. Raaflaub and J. Emlen (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991; U.S. edition by University of Michigan Press), pp. 269-88 (anthologized in a slightly abridged version in The Renaissance: Italy and Abroad, ed. J. Martin [New York: Routledge, 2003])
• “Dante and Florence,” in The Cambridge Companion to Dante, ed. R. Jacoff (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 80-99 (anthologized in Dante: The Critical Complex, ed. R. H. Lansing, vol. 5: Dante and
History: From Florence and Rome to the Heavenly Jerusalem [New York: Routledge, 2002], pp. 206-25);
slightly revised in the volume’s second edition (2007), pp. 236-56
• “Machiavelli and Geta: Men of Letters,” in Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature, eds. A. Ascoli and V. Kahn (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 53-79
• “Brunetto Latini's Politica,” Dante Studies 112 (1994): 33-51
• “Language and The Prince,” in Niccolò Machiavelli’s “The Prince”: New Interdisciplinary Essays, ed. M. Coyle (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995), pp. 89-114 (anthologized in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, vol. 140, published by Thomson Gale)
• “The Republic’s Two Bodies: Body Metaphors in Italian Renaissance Political Thought,” in Language and Images
of Renaissance Italy, ed. A. Brown (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), pp. 237-62
• “Stato, comune e universitas,” in Origini dello stato: processi di formazione statale in Italia fra medioevo ed età
moderna, ed. Giorgio Chittolini, Anthony Molho, and Pierangelo Schiera, vol. 39 of the Annali dell’Istituto Storico Italo-germanico in Trento (1994, but actually 1996), pp. 245-63
• “Baron’s Machiavelli and Renaissance Republicanism,” American Historical Review 101 (February 1996): 119-29
• “Papirius and the Chickens, or Machiavelli on the Necessity of Interpreting Religion,” Journal of the History of
Ideas 60 (1999): 659-81
• “The Life of Machiavelli” and “[Machiavelli] The Political Theorist,” in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. P. F. Grendler (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999), vol. 4, pp. 1-8
• “Republicanism,” in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. P. F. Grendler (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999), vol. 5, pp. 313-22
• “Civic Humanism and Florentine Politics,” in Renaissance Civic Humanism, ed. James Hankins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 75-104 (anthologized in The Italian Renaissance, in the series “Bloom’s Period Studies” [New York: Chelsea House, 2004])
• “Una grande crisi dimenticata,” preface to I consigli della repubblica fiorentina: Libri fabarum XIII e XIV
(1326-1331), ed. L. De Angelis (Rome: Pubblicazioni degli Archivi di Stato: 2000), pp. vii-xvi
• “[Renaissance] Political Ideas,” in A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, ed. G. Ruggiero (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), pp. 384-402
• “Giannozzo and His Elders: Alberti's Critique of Renaissance Patriarchy,” in Society and Individual in
Renaissance Florence, ed. W. J. Connell (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002), pp.
51-78
• “Politics: Class and Patronage in Twentieth-Century Italian Renaissance Historiography,” in The Italian
Renaissance in the Twentieth Century, ed. A. Grieco, M. Rocke, and F. Gioffredi Superbi (Florence: Leo S.
Olschki and Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2002), pp. 119-36
• “Political History and Political Thought,” in Palgrave Advances in Renaissance Historiography, ed. J. Woolfson (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004), pp. 270-97
• “Italy and the Renaissance,” introduction to Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, ed. J. M. Najemy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 1-17
• “Governments and Governance,” chapter 9 of Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, ed. J. M. Najemy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 184-207
• “Florentine Politics and Urban Spaces,” in Renaissance Florence: A Social History, eds. R. J. Crum and J. T. Paoletti (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 19-54, 483-91
• “Arms and Letters: The Crisis of Courtly Culture in the Wars of Italy,” in Italy and the European Powers: The
Impact of War, 1500-1530, ed. C. Shaw (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006), pp. 207-38
• “‘Occupare la tirannide’: Machiavelli, the Militia, and Guicciardini’s Accusation of Tyranny,” in Della tirannia:
Machiavelli con Bartolo, ed. J. Barthas, Quaderni di Rinascimento 42 (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2007), pp.
75-108
• “Alberti on Love: Musings on Private Transgression and Public Discipline,” in Power, Gender, and Ritual in
Europe and the Americas: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Trexler, ed. Peter Arnade and Michael Rocke
(Toronto: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2008), pp. 135-52.
• “Studi americani sulla cultura e sulla storia sociale e politica dell’Italia comunale (secc. XII-XIV),” in La civiltà
comunale italiana nella storiografia internazionale, ed. Andrea Zorzi (Florence: Firenze University Press, 2008),
pp. 93-115.
• “Machiavelli between East and West,” in From Florence to the Mediterranean and Beyond: Essays in Honour of
Anthony Molho, ed. D. Ramada Curto, E. R. Dursteler, J. Kirshner, and F. Trivellato, 2 vols. (Florence: Leo S.
Olschki, 2009), 1:127-45.
• “The Beginnings of Florence Cathedral: A Political Interpretation,” in Arnolfo’s Moment, ed. D. Friedman, J. Gardner, and M. Haines (Florence: Villa I Tatti and Leo S. Olschki, 2009), pp. 183-210.
• “Carpi, 1521: Amici: Guicciardini e Machiavelli nelle guerre d’Italia,” Atlante storico della letteratura italiana (Turin: Einaudi, 2010), pp. 774-80.
• “Introduction,” The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli, pp. 1-13.
• “Society, Class, and State in the Discourses on Livy,” in The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli, pp. 96-111.
• “The medieval Italian city and the ‘civilizing process’,” in Europa e Italia. Studi in onore di Giorgio Chittolini (Florence: Firenze University Press, 2011), pp. 355-69 (www.ebook.retimedievali.it).
• “Machiavelli’s Florentine Tribunes,” forthcoming
• “The Figure of Fabrizio Colonna in Machiavelli’s Art of War,” forthcoming
• “The Politics of Sex in Civic Humanist Florence,” unpublished Recensioni:
• Domenico Maffei, Il giovane Machiavelli banchiere con Berto Berti a Roma, and Mario Martelli, L'altro Niccolò
di Bernardo Machiavelli (Quaderni di Rinascimento), in Speculum 52 (1977): 156-61.
• William M. Bowsky, A Medieval Italian Commune: Siena under the Nine, 1287-1355, in Speculum 58 (1983): 1029-33.
• Guida generale degli archivi di stato italiani, I: A-E, in Speculum 59 (1984): 153-54.
• Randolph Starn, Contrary Commonwealth: The Theme of Exile in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, in Journal of
Modern History 56 (1984): 735-38.
• Antony Black, Guilds and Civil Society in European Political Thought from the Twelfth Century to the Present, in
American Historical Review, 91 (1986): 96-97.
• Guida generale degli archivi di stato italiani, II: F-M, in Speculum 62 (1987): 237-38.
• Roberto S. Lopez and Marino Berengo, Intervista sulla città medievale, in American Historical Review 92 (1987): 397.
• Ann G. Carmichael, Plague and the Poor in Renaissance Florence, in Histoire Sociale/Social History 20 (1987): 195-97.
• George Holmes, Florence, Rome, and the Origins of the Renaissance, in American Historical Review (1989): 1130-31.
• Richard MacKenney, Tradesmen and Traders: The World of the Guilds in Venice and Europe, in Journal of
Modern History 61 (1989): 623-26.
• Gordon Griffiths, James Hankins, and David Thompson, eds., The Humanism of Leonardo Bruni: Selected Texts, in Speculum 66 (1991): 616-18.
• Hans Baron, In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism, 2 vols., in Renaissance Quarterly 45 (1992): 340-50.
• Anthony J. Parel, The Machiavellian Cosmos, in Journal of Modern History 67 (1995): 676-80.
• Franco Franceschi, Oltre il “Tumulto”: I lavoratori fiorentini dell'Arte della Lana fra Tre e Quattrocento, in
American Historical Review 100 (1995): 1239-40.
• Laura Ikins Stern, The Criminal Law System of Medieval and Renaissance Florence, in Speculum 71 (1996): 494-96.
• Julia Bolton Holloway, Twice-Told Tales: Brunetto Latino and Dante Alighieri, in Speculum 71 (1996): 435-37.
• Vickie B. Sullivan, Machiavelli's Three Romes, in American Historical Review 103 (1998): 223-24.
• Lauro Martines, An Italian Renaissance Sextet: Six Tales in Historical Context, in Società e storia (2000): 214-21.
• Nicolai Rubinstein, The Government of Florence Under the Medici (1434 to 1494), 2nd edition; and Athanasios Moulakis, Republican Realism in Renaissance Florence: Francesco Guicciardini’s "Discorso di Logrogno, in
Renaissance Quarterly 53 (2000): 883-86.
• Jonathan Davies, Florence and its University during the Early Renaissance, in American Historical Review 105 (2000): 1829-30.
• Giorgio Cadoni, Lotte politiche e riforme istituzionali a Firenze tra il 1494 e il 1502, in Sixteenth Century Journal 32 (2001): 531-32.
• Nicolai Rubinstein, Studies in Italian History in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, vol. 1: Political Thought
and the Language of Politics: Art and Politics, in Speculum 81 (2006): 264-66.
• George Dameron, Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante, in American Historical Review 111 (2006): 316.
• Simon Gilson, Dante and Renaissance Florence, in The Medieval Review (2006).
• Christine Shaw, Popular Government and Oligarchy in Renaissance Italy, in Speculum 83 (2008): 1034-36.
• Gene Brucker, Living on the Edge in Leonardo’s Florence: Selected Essays, in International Journal of the
Classical Tradition 15 (2008 [appeared in 2009]): 501-3.
• Mark Jurdjevic, Guardians of Republicanism: The Valori Family in the Florentine Renaissance, in Renaissance
Quarterly 62 (2009): 554-5.
• Fabrizio Ricciardelli, The Politics of Exclusion in Early Renaissance Florence, in the English Historical Review 124 (2009): 1474-76.
• Elena Fasano Guarini, Repubbliche e principi. Istituzioni e pratiche di potere nella Toscana granducale del ’500-’600, in Renaissance Quarterly (2011):
